Doctor Who Vs. Casualty @ 40: Series 8

 

Regular series actors Derek Thompson, Cathy Shipton, Ian Bleasdale,

Clive Mantle, Patrick Robinson, Caroline Webster, Anne Kristen and

William Gaminara all returned for the eighth season of BBC1's long-

running medical drama.

Joining the programme here were Jo Unwin (as paramedic Lucy Cooper), 

David Ryall (Dr. Tom Harley), Oliver Parker (manager Mark Calder),

Suzanna Hamilton (SHO Karen Goodliffe), Dona Croll (nurse Adele

Beckford), Christopher Guard (nurse Ken Hodges), Samantha Edwards

(nurse Helen Chatsworth), Naoko Mori (receptionist Mie Nishikawa),

Steven O'Donnell (porter Frankie Drummer), Brendan O'Hea (paramedic

Brian Crawford), Tara Moran (trainee nurse Mary Skillett), Martin Ball

(SHO Dave Masters) and Jane Gurnett (nurse Rachel Longworth).

Webster, Kristen, Gaminara, Ryall, Parker, Hamilton, Croll, Guard,

Edwards, Mori, O'Donnell, O'Hea, Moran and Ball had all left the show

 by the series' conclusion, whilst Shipton chose to depart after eight

years service - she would return regularly between 1998 and 2020.

The twenty-four part run (originally broadcast from September 1993

to February 1994) featured Adjoa Andoh, and these thirty-six Doctor

 Who cast and crew connections:

• Mori was Dr. Toshiko Sato in Aliens of London, then Torchwood
• Amelda Brown (Linda) voiced Margaret for The Gunpowder Plot
• Peter Ferdinando (Policeman) and Brian [Reginald] Miller (Sullivan here; Warburn, 1999; Piper, 2002; Hearn, 2012) both appeared in Deep Breath, as Half-Face Man and Barney - Miller was also Dugdale in Snakedance, provided Dalek voices for Resurrection of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks, was Harry Sowersby in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic - he also voiced Abbotly for Ghost Town (2002), and Rexus for Reborn (2011)
• Brenda Bruce (Carrie) was Tilda in Paradise Towers
• Clive [Mark] Rowe (Speight) was Morvin Van Hoff in Voyage of the Damned
• Craig Kelly (Wheater here; Daniel Perryman, 1995/6) and Anna Calder Marshall (Yvonne here; Peggy, 2015) both starred in Scream of the Shalka, as Joe Latham and Mathilda Pierce respectively
• prolific Big Finish actor Toby Longworth (PC) voiced Professor Morgan /Sancreda/UNIT Sentry for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor, the Monan Host for The Apocalypse Element, Priest for The Fires of Vulcan (all 2000), Kelsey for Sword of Orion, Hauptmann Julius Schafer for Colditz (both 2001), Beep the Meep for The Ratings War, Wong Chu for The Tao Connection, Driver for Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre, Josiah W Dogbolter for The Maltese Penguin (all 2002) and The Quantum Possibility Engine (2018), Badger/Gaulish/Winston Churchill/Tribes- man for Auld Mortality, Broke for The Dark Flame, Time Lord for Exile (all 2003), Goran for Snake Head, Cabbie for Unregenerate! (both 2005), Various for Cyberman 1, Controller for Dreamland (both 2006), Redklaw for Spring, Jack for Autumn, Colonel Heinrich Konrad /Major Schrader for Old Soldiers, the titular villain for The Wishing Beast, Coiffure for The Vanity Box (all 2007), Commander Hectocot for The Chaos Pool, Yatsumoto/Truscott/Manager for The Nightmare Fair (both 2009), Stafel/Guard for The Song of Megaptera, Dr. Tulp for Jago & Litefoot 1 (both 2010), Thaddeus P Winklemeyer/Berman Labazeen for Freakshow (2011), Workers for The Concrete Cage, Klaus Werner for Unto the Breach (both 2014), Min for Intervention Earth (2015), Vesuvius for The Iron Legion (2019), Narrator of Battlefield (2022), The Romanov Project (both 2023), Paris in the Springtime and Cheques, Lies and Videotape, Dr. Clifton Sanders/ Alexi for The Black Cadre (2026), and Squawk/Caw The Infinite Quest
• Jaye Griffiths (Sheena here; Elle Gardner, 2016) was Jac in The Magician's Apprentice and The Zygon Invasion, and reprised for The Turn of the Tides (2022), and voiced Daylin for The Neverwhen (2016), Til Rork for The Sentient (2019), Sister Ursula for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Hieronymous Friend for Meanwhile, Elsewhere, Narrator of The Martian Dilemma, and Lady Audacity Montague for Audacity, In the Bleak Midwinter (all 2023), Deadly Stranger (2024) and Bramble King (2025)
• Martin Cochrane (Dinning) was General Chellak in The Caves of Androzani
• Terrence [Edward] Hardiman (Carlisle) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, and voiced King Sitric for The Book of Kells (2010), Reverend Dobbs for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011), Hepworth Stackhouse for The English Way of Death, Lord Richard Pollard for The Fall of the House of Pollard (both 2014), and Rassilon for Time War 2 (2019)
• Andrée Bernard (Ricky here; Sandra, 1997) was Dolly Bailey in The Shakespeare Code, and voiced Ellen Green for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009), Erisi for The Entropy Composition, Lorelei for Paradise 5 (both 2010), Joanna Slade for The Feast of Axos (2011), Dr. Paignton/ Constable for The Red House, Susie/Sylvie for Stage Fright, Tethneka/ Carter/Thing for Terror of the Sontarans (all 2015), Mary Sissinghurst for The Carrionite Curse, and Lulu Hammerstein for The Silent Scream (both 2017)
• Jim [Michael] McManus (Harry here; Davis, 1996) was Opthalmol- ogist in The Invisible Enemy
• Frances White (Harriet) was Cassandra in The Myth Makers
• Sean Carlsen (Mac here; Mick, 1994; Bard, 1998) was Policeman in The Christmas Invasion, then voiced Various for The Natural History of Fear (2004), Caius for The Council of Nicaea (2005), Ned Davey for The Ghosts of Gralstead, Co-ordinator Narvin for Dark Eyes 3 (both 2014), Gallifrey (2004-16), The War Master (2018-20), Time War (2018-21), Erasure, The Quantum Possibility Engine, Dust Devil, Aftershocks, War Room (2022-26), and The Last Day 2 (2024)
• Amanda Root (Joyce here; Evelyn, 2013) voiced Madeleine Fair- weather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek/Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
• Sarah Berger (Gemma here; Helen, 2013) was Rost in Attack of the Cybermen (2)
• Vilma [Jean] Hollingbery (Ada) was Mrs. Harcourt in The Doctor Dances
• Leslie Schofield (Jenson) was Leroy in (episode 4 of) The War Games, and Calib in The Face of Evil
• Ball was Roger Davey in Partners in Crime
• Mark Williams (Jones) voiced Max Edison for The Eternal Summer (2009), then played Brian Williams in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and The Power of Three
• Gracy Goldman (Rosie) was Mrs. Woods in The Caretaker
• Patrick O'Connell (White) was Ashton in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (4)
• Michael Bertenshaw (PC Vaughan here; Granger, 2003; Murray, 2008) was Cole in The Next Doctor
• Peter Guinness (Becket here; Elliot Matthews, 1997/8) voiced Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Rovus for The Star Men (2017), Garzan for The Dying Breed (2025), and Mr. Dread for Dreamland
• Derek [James] Fowlds (Croft here; Cothern, 2013) voiced Claude for The Elixir of Doom (2014)
• Sean [Campbell] Gallagher (Truman) was Chip in New Earth
• Martyn Whitby (Pascoe here; Stanbridge, 2005) was the Drayman in The Mark of the Rani (1)
• Bryonie Pritchard (Nicola) was Dr. Sally Arnold in the Auton trilogy
• Heather Emmanuel (Rabya) was Tessa in The Android Invasion (4)
• Norman Mitchell [Driver] (Jenkins) was Policeman in The Daleks' Master Plan (7)
• Paterson [Davis] Joseph (Michael here; Mark Grace, 1997/8) was Roderick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), Harbolt for The Queen of Clocks, and James Blakelock for Missy and the Time Assassin (both 2024)
• Colin McFarlane (Ray here; Duheney, 2015) provided the voice of the Heavenly Host for Voyage of the Damned, was Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, and General Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Vince Foster for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), was Narrator of The Blood Cell (all 2014) and Farewll to Peter Capaldi, then voiced Identical Men for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020), and John Sloan for The Krillitane Relic (2025)
• Karen Archer (Carly here; Norma, 2004) voiced Professor Allen for Never Alone (2021), DCI Denise Walker for The Annihilators (2022), the Vrull for The Great Cyber War (2023), and Countess of Warminster for Anne of a Thousand Light Years (2024)
• AFM Catrin Lewis Defis was the associate producer on The Next Doctor, The End of Time and Torchwood, and produced Music of the Spheres

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 3

David Suchet (as the definitive Hercule Poirot), Hugh

Fraser, Philip Jackson, and Pauline Moran all returned

for eleven period crime dramas, first broadcast on ITV through the autumn and winter of 1990/91.

 The opening feature-length mystery was based on

the Queen of Crime's debut novel, written in 1916

and published in 1920. Five of the cases were based

on short stories from Poirot's Early Cases (issued in

1974), three derived from Poirot Investigates (1924),

 and two originated from The Adventure of the

Christmas Pudding (1960).

A repeat run of the third season continued on ITV3

today - it featured Peter Capaldi (pictured in Wasps'

Nest), and a total of forty-nine Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (UK TX: September 16 1990)

• Joanna McCallum (Evie here; Laura for A Murder is Announced, 1999; Mrs. Olivera for One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 2004; Princess in Murder on the Orient Express, 2022) voiced the Bursar for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• David Savile (Summerhaye) was Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs in The War Games, Professor Winser in The Claws of Axos, and Colonel Charles Crichton in The Five Doctors
• Anthony Calf (Cavendish) was Charles in The Visitation, Colonel Godsacre in Empress of Mars, and voiced Lord Barset for Frozen Time (2007), and Cal for Zero Space (2018)
• [Frank] Morris Perry (Wells) was Captain Dent in Colony in Space
• Tim Munro (Mace) was Ainu in The Creature from the Pit, and Sigurd in Terminus
• Tim Preece (Philips) was Codal in Planet of the Daleks, then voiced the President for He Jests at Scars (2003)
• Donald Pelmear (Judge) was Professor Rubeish in The Time Warrior
• Robert Vowles (Driver) was a Gundan in Warriors' Gate
• David Rintoul [born Wilson] (Cavendish) voiced Lord Henry Balfour for The Phoenix Strain (2016), Professor Andus Renwick for The Helm of Awe (2017), Galla Posca for Escape from Kaldor (2018), Dr. Leon Jessel for Fever Island (2019), Roger Hodgkiss for Barrister to the Stars (2020), Kinade/Priest/Bishop for The Curse of Lady Macbeth (2021), Garron for The Ribos Inheritance, and Butler for The House that Hoxx Built (both 2022)

How Does Your Garden Grow? (UK TX: January 6 1991)

• Elizabeth Waller was costume designer on The Robots of Death too

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (UK TX: January 13)

• David [John] Quilter (Shaw here; Laidlaw in The Crackler) was Greeves in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Christopher Owen (Purser) was an Earthling in Meglos
• Jonathan Stratt (Passenger) was the Taxi Driver in Partners in Crime
• Dallas Adams (Hood) was Professor Howard Foster in Planet of Fire
• Edward Phillips (Seller) was Parisian in (episode 3 of) The Massacre, and Scientist [Bob Anders] in The Moonbase
• Lizzie McInnerny (Nurse here; Alex in Philomel Cottage, 2002; Jenny in The ABC Murders, 2018) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)

The Plymouth Express (UK TX: January 20)

• writer Rod Beacham made his TV acting debut as Corporal Lane in The Web of Fear
• Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Carrington here; Champneys in The Manhood of Edward Robinson; Halliday in Sleeping Murder, 2006) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012), Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigold Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
• Steven Mackintosh (Newsboy) was Gazak in Timelash
• Leon Eagles (Manager) was Jabel in The Face of Evil
• John Abbott (Detective) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
• Reg [George] Thomason (Doorman here; Club member in The Mystery of the Spanish Chest; Drinker in The Chocolate Box; Audience in Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Barristr in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982) was Resistance Man in Daleks' Invasion 2150 AD

Wasps' Nest (UK TX: January 27)

• Julian Forsyth (Waiter) voiced Grei Potemic for Rewind (2022)
• Hilary Tindall (Compere) played Marion Clements in The Curse of the Daleks

The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor (UK TX: February 3)

• Ian McCulloch (Maltravers) was Nilson in Warriors of the Deep
• Geraldine Alexander (Susan here; Gwenda in Sleeping Murder, 1987; Blanche for Absent in the Spring) was Areta in Vengeance on Varos
• Ralph Watson (Danvers) was the Generator Scientist in The Underwater Menace, Captain Knight in The Web of Fear and The Web of Time (2019), Ettis in The Monster of Peladon, and Ben Travers in Horror of Fang Rock (1)
• Hilary [Sophia] Sesta (Receptionist) was the Fortune Teller in Snakedance

The Double Clue (UK TX: February 10)

• David [James] Bamber (Parker) was Captain Quell in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Emperor Constantine for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Colonel Ulrik/Whitmore for The Four Doctors (2010)
• Mark Fletcher (Constable) was a Crewman in Earthshock
• stuntman Martin Grace was a Thal in Dr. Who and the Daleks
• for Jill Goldston (Waitress) see The Adventure of the Western Star

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (UK TX: February 17)

• Caroline Langrishe (Marguerite here; Sally in Dead Man's Folly, 1986) voiced Shira for The Burning Prince (2012), and Lady Farina/the Red Lady for Doom Coalition 1 (2015)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Rich here; Cloade in Taken at the Flood; Noel Coward in 4.50 from Paddington) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Peter Copley (Burgoyne) was Dr. Warlock in Pyramids of Mars
• Metin Yenal (Umpire) was Karl in Silver Nemesis

The Theft of the Royal Ruby (UK TX: February 24)

• Frederick [William] Treves (Lacey here; Dr. Kennedy in Sleeping Murder, 1987) was Brotadac in Meglos
• Gordon Reid (Shopkeeper here; Littledale for Sad Cypress, 1992) was Phillips in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
• [Patricia] Stephanie Cole (Mrs. Lacey here; Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap, 1968/9; Anna in Jane in Search of a Job; Ariadne Oliver for Hallowe'en Party, The Pale Horse & Cards on the Table) voiced Lady Marianna for The Abandoned (2014), and Narrator of Bessie Come Home
• Iain Rattray (Waiter) was Habris in State of Decay
• stuntman Jim Dowdall had uncredited roles in Day of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks and Frontios

The Affair at the Victory Ball (UK TX: March 3)

• Andrew Burt (Ackeley here; Dr. Quimper in 4. 50 from Paddington, 1987) was Valgard in Terminus
• Harry Van Engel (Engineer here; Juror in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982) was a Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks
• stuntman Steve Whyment was an extra in The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance

The Mystery of the Hunter's Lodge (UK TX: March 10)

• Roy Boyd (Stoddard) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
• Bernard [Arthur Gordon] Horsfall (Pace) was Lemual Gulliver in The Mind Robber, Time Lord in The War Games, Taron in Planet of the Daleks, Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin, and voiced Arnold Baynes for Davros (2003)
• Victoria Alcock (Ellie) was Angela in Planet of the Dead, then voiced Marion for Power Play, and Winnie O'Connor for The Lonely Clock (both 2012)
• Raymond Trickitt (Cooke) was the Ancient Haemovore in The Curse of Fenric
• Jim Norton (Havering) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka

Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 4

Bradley Walsh, Jamie

Bamber, Freema Agyeman,

and Harriet Walter returned

for the fourth series of the

British spin-off of Dick Wolf's

 Law & Order. Bill Paterson

and Ben Daniels left the pro-

gramme in Skeletons, when

their characters (CPS Director

Castle and Senior Prosecutor

James Steel) both resigned

from the Crown Prosecution Service.

All six cases were again based on scripts from the parent American drama.

A repeat run of the season (originally shown in the winter of 2011) began

on ITV3 last night - it featured Nicola Walker, Jemma Redgrave, and a

total of thirty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

ID (UK TX: March 21 2011/based on Promises to Keep, 1993)

• Geraldine Alexander (Ellen) was Areta in Vengeance in Varos
• Matthew [Anthony] McNulty (Nash) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
• Andy Godbold (stunts here, Series 5: Crush, S8: I Predict a Riot) was stuntman on The Bells of Saint John, and co-ordinator on four stories (from Boom to Joy to the World)
• for Andy Goddard, Malcolm Thornton, Nick Foley and Robert Glenister see Series 1
• for Mike Jones and Isla Blair see Series 3

Denial (U K TX: March 14/based on DNR, 1999)

• for Catherine Tregenna and Jessica Gunning see Series 1
• Juliet [Anne Virginia] Stevenson (Rachel) voiced Winifred Whitby for Fond Farewell (2022)
• Diana [Marilyn] Quick (Judge Hall here, Duty of Care & S8: Flaw) voiced Prime for Scream of the Shalka, then Sophie Kinzky for Lay Down Your Arms (2022)
• Duane Henry (Flynn) was Mechanic Claude in Midnight

Shaken (UK TX: April 4/based on Homesick, 1996)

• Paul Wilmshurst was also director of Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
• Adetomiwa Edun (Benson) was Brock in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, then voiced Corvell for The Forest of Penitence, and Block for The Players (borh 2022)
• Rebecca Night [born Hardwick] (Leila) voiced Helene for Masquerade (2014), Matilda Gregson for Beachhead (2016), and Romana for The Difference Office (2022)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Andrea) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol, and Dorothea Ames in Class, and voiced Annalise Avenley for The Running Men (2024)

Duty of Care (UK TX: March 28/based on Endurance, 2000)

• Geoffrey Leesley (Harris) voiced Paramount Minister Mortund for Arrangements for War (2004), and Harold for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Ashley McGuire (Simone) voiced the Sergeant for The Red House (2015)
• Oliver Dimsdale (Peck) voiced Morecombe Unwise for Come Die With Me, Mervyn Garvey for Dead to the World, Archie Ferrers for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Commander Trelon for A Thing of Guile (2016), and Rebben Tace/V52 for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)

Help (UK TX: March 7/based on We Like Mike, 1997)

• for James Strong see Series 3
• Michael Cochrane (Burchville) was Charles Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Ghost Light, then voiced Lt. Col. Brook for No Man's Land (2006), Murgat for Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008), Colonel Spindleton for Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure (both 2012), Cedric Chivers for The Time Machine (2013), and Geralk for The Fate of Krelos and Return to Telos (2015)
• Elizabeth Rider (Fiona) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and was Linda in The Time of the Doctor - she also voiced Galatea for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Andrew Havill (Morris) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Jamie Cho (Young) was Colonel Chan in The Star Beast

Skeletons (UK TX: April 11/based on Trophy, 1996)

• Tobias Menzies (Cain) was Lieutenant Stepashin in Cold War 
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Hareton) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then Charles Babbage in Spyfall
• Jade Anouka (Carla) was the Waitress in The Bells of Saint John, and voiced Danuta for The Blood Furnace (2017)
• Ian Adrian was also a camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger and An Adventure in Space and Time